Meat Loaf plays his own stalker in a fever dream that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Part fiction, part documentary. Dead Ringer was created as a promotional tie-in to Meat Loaf's album of the same name, which was his follow-up to the hugely successful "Bat Out Of Hell".
Direction
Nicholls commits to the bit with straight-faced absurdity.
Acting
Meat Loaf playing against himself is unhinged commitment.
Production
Blatant album promo somehow becomes genuine psychodrama.
Director
Allan F. Nicholls
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was shot during Meat Loaf's actual 1981 tour, with concert footage woven into the narrative. The 'documentary' elements are real audiences losing their minds.
Released when MTV was transforming musicians into visual brands, this accidentally predicted the future of meta-celebrity where stars play exaggerated versions of themselves.
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